11.3.10

9.3.10

... A twofold frame of body and mind./The state to which I now allude was one/In which the eye was master of the heart,/When that which is in every single stage of life/The most despotic of our senses gained/Such strength in me as often held my mind/In absolute dominion.

3.3.10

What I like about Tango is the way it threads different elements together: something highly refined, something very raw, different traditions, Spanish, Italian, French, Jewish....Jazz, the classical tradition....and a lot more. Here is an example of Klezmer Tango:

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This is the weblog of artist Patrick Michael Fitzgerald. Here you will find images, reflections and information in and around his studio practice. It is not a diary or journal but rather an online notebook. For an overview of the artist's work and biographical information please visit the artist's home page:

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"I think they (painters) always just hope that they will be able to unlock the valves of sensation which just open out the whole appearance" Francis Bacon, in an interview. (artpress 215 Juillet/Aout 98 p.22).

A thinking reed.—It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)